Steven Ujifusa

Steven Brooks Ujifusa is an American historian and the author of three books on maritime history.

Ujifusa's father Grant was a founding editor of The Almanac of American Politics and prominent participant in the Japanese American redress movement of the 1980s. His mother Amy was a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Juilliard School of Music. ^[1]

Ujifusa majored in history as an undergraduate at Harvard University and earned a master's degree in historic preservation and real estate development from the University of Pennsylvania. ^[2] His first book, A Man and His Ship, won the Literary Prize for Non-Fiction from the Athenaeum of Philadelphia ^[3] and was named one of the top ten non-fiction books of 2012 by The Wall Street Journal . ^[4] In 2019, he received the Washington Irving Literary Medal from the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York. ^[5]

Books

• A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2012. ISBN   978-1-4516-4507-1. ^[6]
• Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2018. ISBN   978-1-4767-4597-8. ^[7]
• The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I. New York: HarperCollins. 2023. ISBN   978-0-06-297189-0. ^[8]

References

1. "Japanese American Redress: Scenes Behind the Scenes: Grant Ujifusa" . Retrieved November 12, 2024.
2. "Ujifusa, Steven". German National Library (in German). Retrieved September 27, 2024.
3. "Athenaeum Literary Award". Athenaeum of Philadelphia . Archived from the original on May 16, 2024. Retrieved September 26, 2024.
4. "The Best Non-Fiction of 2012". Wall Street Journal . December 14, 2012. Archived from the original on September 14, 2023. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
5. "Literary Medal". Saint Nicholas Society . Archived from the original on July 18, 2024. Retrieved September 26, 2024.
6. Reviews for A Man and His Ship:
   • Gordon, John Steele (August 17, 2012). "The Anti-Titanic". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved October 3, 2024.
   • Freeman, Jay (June 1, 2012). "A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States". Booklist . Vol. 108, no. 19–20. American Library Association . Retrieved October 3, 2024– via Gale.
   • "A Man and His Ship". Kirkus Reviews . May 6, 2012. Archived from the original on November 22, 2023. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
   • Mercogliano, Salvatore R. (Winter 2012–2013). "Reviews". Sea History . No. 141. p. 53. Retrieved October 4, 2024– via Issuu.
   • Preul, Don (February 2013). "A Man and His Ship". U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings . Vol. 139, no. 2. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
   • Stillwell, Paul (January 2013). "Looking Back - The Last Great American Liner". Naval History . Vol. 27, no. 1. U.S. Naval Institute. Archived from the original on May 19, 2024. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
   • "A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States by Steven Ujifusa". Publishers Weekly . May 21, 2012. Archived from the original on March 4, 2024. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
7. Reviews of Barons of the Sea:
   • "Barons of the Sea". Kirkus Reviews . April 10, 2018. Archived from the original on May 20, 2024. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
   • "Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship by Steven Ujifusa". Publishers Weekly . May 7, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
   • Collins, Cary C. (2019). "BARONS OF THE SEA: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper ship". Journal of the West : 85–86. EBSCOhost   144650150
   • Demy, Timothy J. (July 27, 2023). "Steven Ujifusa, Barons of the Sea, and Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship by Timothy J. Demy". The Northern Mariner / Le Marin du Nord. 33 (1): 154–156. doi:10.25071/2561-5467.1119. ISSN   2561-5467.
   • Donoghue, Steve (July 17, 2018). "'Barons of the Sea' chronicles the race to build the perfect clipper ship". Christian Science Monitor . ISSN   0882-7729. Archived from the original on March 22, 2023. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
   • Kj (2018). "Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship". Foreign Policy (230): 85. ISSN   0015-7228. JSTOR   26535823.
   • Ewing, James (February 1, 2019). "Pelagic thoroughbreds". The New Criterion . 37 (6): 66–67. EBSCOhost   134368442
   • Steagall, Jason L. (June 2, 2018). "Barons of the Sea: And Their Race To Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship". Library Journal . 143 (10): 113. EBSCOhost   129811255
8. Reviews of The Last Ships from Hamburg:
   • Cole, Diane (November 17, 2023). "Voyage to the Golden Land". The Wall Street Journal . Archived from the original on December 17, 2023. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
   • Drent, Jan (June 28, 2024). "Steven Ujifusa, The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I by Jan Drent". The Northern Mariner / Le Marin du Nord. 33 (3–4): 580–583. doi:10.25071/2561-5467.1225. ISSN   2561-5467.
   • Nasaw, David (February 12, 2024). "The Deadly Business of Restricting Immigration". The New York Times . Retrieved October 3, 2024.
   • "The Last Ships from Hamburg". Kirkus Reviews . September 23, 2023. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
   • "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I by Steven Ujifusa". Publishers Weekly . September 11, 2023. Archived from the original on August 27, 2024. Retrieved October 3, 2024.

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